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The Jungle Awaits
From tropical coasts, where greedy colonial powers pillage the land, to remote jungles and rolling savannas of mystics and lion-riders, the Mwangi Expanse is a region of boundless opportunity. Underneath the steaming jungle canopy, the lost ruins of ancient giants shelter isolated tribes, bloodthirsty predators, and screaming hordes of demon-worshiping apes. Sites of ancient magic lie almost forgotten to the outside world, and a steady stream of bold explorers ventures into the trackless wilderness after legendary fountains of youth and cities of gold, never to return. For the jungle is a living, breathing entity, and it’s always hungry...
Heart of the Jungle is the perfect supplement for any jungle campaign.
Inside this 64-page book, you’ll find:
New rules for adventuring in the jungle, including hazards like diseases, fungi, poisonous plants, insect swarms, quicksand, and more.
Nine new jungle cities, from the colonial trade town of Bloodcove to the cyclopean astrologer-fortress of Jaha, complete with full statistics and maps.
Information on the many cultures of the Mwangi Expanse, encompassing both the major human tribes and the jungle’s more alien and monstrous denizens.
A detailed gazetteer of some of the Expanse’s most legendary adventure sites, from the crashed flying city of Kho to the City of Hungry Spires.
More than a dozen new maps of cities and jungles, each one highly detailed for GM reference or artistically rendered for player handouts.
Five new monsters, including the flesh-eating botfly, the ancient jungle treant, and the terrifying ape-men known as angazhani.
Massive random encounter tables for multiple jungle adventure terrain types.
by Tim Hitchcock, Jason Nelson, Amber Scott, Chris Self, and Todd Stewart
This book is intended for use with the Pathfinder Chronicles campaign setting and the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, but it can be easily used in any game setting.
Jungle Campaigns are different, and if you aren't prepared, your campaign can hit the quicksand of player apathy. This suppliment takes you through the pitfalls and really helps make a campaign memoriable. Check out my full review: Heart of the Jungle
I previously bought Osirion, Land of Pharaohs from Paizo and was rather disappointed--and thus almost made the mistake of not buying this top-notch work. My group just started playing the Shackled City adventure path, which is set in a jungle. Luckily for me, this book came out just after we started and it's perfect for really any jungle campaign. The wealth of detail on the many cities and key adventure sites is just right, plenty to explain what each is about but leaving room for the GM's imagination. There are also a lot of maps in different cool styles. The monsters at the back, unlike a lot of the new monsters I come across, are actually believable and useful and will definitely find a home in my campaign. The section on natural hazards is very well done and easy to use. The only bit I was left wanting more on was the info on various cultures of the area. However, the very wide coverage (with maps!) of the cities and sites more than made up for it.
I've been wondering how they were gonna tackle some of the more interesting things about jungle travel (insects, floods, etc..) and they seem to have covered almost everything that could happen. The art in the book is beautiful and the maps that look handmade and like something from Indiana Jones just add that much more flavor to the game.
The level of detail it has about almost every single location in the expanse has not only allowed me to make my current campaign far richer, but to create an as-yet-unused Mwangi-based character with a more interesting backstory.
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